COUNTIES

Registered charity 264278 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as C E W TRUSTEES LIMITED, COUNTIES (FORMERLY COUNTIES EVANGELISTIC WORK)

COUNTIES seeks to communicate the Christian faith in a culturally relevant way, across England and Wales, and encourage churches in mission through Evangelists, Exhibitions & other resources. It actively supports self-employed Evangelists, who are involved in a wide range of initiatives including local churches, schools, universities, prisons, markets, agricultural shows and door-to-door contacts.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE CHRISTIAN FAITH BY SUCH MEANS BEING CHARITABLE AS THE TRUST MAY DETERMINE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Wiltshire, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity recorded a net surplus of £58,854 for the year, with total income increasing to £1,241,745. Free reserves stood at £581,712, which the trustees confirm is within their stated target range of £394,128 to £591,192. The auditor confirmed that no material uncertainties exist regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Burton Sweet Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01041761

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JORDAN-WOLF, Rachel Ann, Dr — director, appointed 25/06/2025not on trustee list
• FIELDER, James Andrew — director, appointed 20/04/2024on trustee list
• SINGLETON, Peter Edward — director, appointed 24/03/2022on trustee list
• DAVIES, James — director, appointed 05/10/2017on trustee list
• MCQUOID, Stephen John, Dr — director, appointed 04/10/2012on trustee list
• BENNETT, Simon Russell — director, appointed 07/03/2009on trustee list
• CANHAM, Richard Edward — director, appointed 04/06/1998on trustee list

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/09/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~5.9 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/12/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (11/10/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (09/08/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (06/04/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Rachel Jordan Wolf
• Dr Stephen McQuoid · trustee of 1 other charity
• JAMES ANDREW FIELDER
• James Davies · trustee of 2 other charities
• PETER SINGLETON · trustee of 1 other charity
• RICHARD CANHAM · trustee of 2 other charities
• SIMON BENNETT · trustee of 2 other charities

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Shared trustees with funders

Register facts shown side by side: a person serves as trustee of both this charity and a funder whose accounts record grants to it. Shared trusteeship is lawful and common; well-run charities manage it through declared-interest procedures.

• Richard Canham — trustee here and at CHURCH GROWTH TRUST LIMITED

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHURCH COMMUNITIES UK.

• CHURCH COMMUNITIES UK income £28.5m
• KING AND COUNTRY CHURCH income £143k
• COLW income £786k
• A CHURCH income £53k
• THE COUNTESS CHARITY income £664k
• CREATION MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (UK / EUROPE) LTD income £368k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.